I’ve turned into an introvert who can play extrovert as I’ve grown older. I don’t believe the pandemic has helped me socially, as we’ve...
Hello new military spouse, and welcome!
We are at opposite ends of this military-spouse journey, you and I. You are just beginning as a...
Sometimes it feels like I have best friends who don’t know I exist.
I put in the time to see them, listen to the...
Hey Girl!
Those two little words set my teeth on edge. Does anyone else cringe when they hear that greeting? Unless it is in the...
One in five Americans – more than 54 million people– have a physical, sensory, or intellectual disability. This makes the disabled community the largest...
Did you know there’s an election happening this year? And that people have strong feelings about it?
Every time I click on a social media...
Parenting is a series of highs and lows. The unbelievable, joy-filling highs, and the heartbreaking, world-altering lows of parenting cannot be replaced.
When we...
How do you make friends? It’s not as easy as when you were five and you just walked up to some kid and said,...
I've gotten pretty adept at making new friends. I was shy and insecure as a teenager, but moving over and over again forced me...
A friend came over recently and brought my husband and me freshly-baked scones and homemade masks. It was a personal and lovely gesture during...
“She’s lying about me.”
“She hurt my feelings.”
“She’s being mean.”
Any of these statements could’ve been uttered by my eight-year-old daughter; and, to be sure, they...
We may not always admit it, but we need girlfriends in our life.
It's chilling to think what sort of woman I would be, mother...
Military Lifestyle
Normalized Overwhelm
Over the Edge
I was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes and doing mental math: I was trying to figure out how to get the...
